Brett Prebble took over the Happy Valley meeting last night and took his leave until international day with another winning treble to stretch his lead at the top of the jockeys' leaderboard.He starts a two-day careless riding ban today, but left on the right note, dominating the city course and quickly settling the Jockey Challenge for the night.Prebble opened with Dennis Yip Chor-hong-trained Secret Of Winning in the third and wound the three -timer up for the same yard with Go Lucky Go in the
Brett Prebble took over the Happy Valley meeting last night and took his leave until international day with another winning treble to stretch his lead at the top of the jockeys' leaderboard.
He starts a two-day careless riding ban today, but left on the right note, dominating the city course and quickly settling the Jockey Challenge for the night.
Prebble opened with Dennis Yip Chor-hong-trained Secret Of Winning in the third and wound the three -timer up for the same yard with Go Lucky Go in the last, but it was the win by humble Class Fiver Kingston Temple, on his first outing for David Hall in the fourth, that had eyebrows raised.
Despite getting keen in the slowly-run affair, Kingston Temple simply rounded his rivals up on the final bend and raced away to score eased down by two and a half lengths over the 1,800m, after not having run for six months.
"He's been a surprise packet since I got him," said Hall. "He didn't show that much at first and he's got troubles with his legs, his back, all sorts of troubles. I could see he was going to be hard to work with, but after a while he started to get some condition on him and then we brought him here to trial and he went whoosh. That surprised me a bit but those Valley trials, early morning, you get a bit of ease in the going and I thought that might have flattered him a bit. Coming to the hard track tonight I didn't know it he'd be able to reproduce it, but he has and by the look of that, there might be another one in him."
Prebble's victory on Secret Of Winning also came as a mild surprise, to the rider, who said the gelding's work had not suggested he was flying.
"I guess he did tonight what we have always thought he could do, but after running some sharp sections early, I wasn't sure he could finish it off, but he was very solid tonight," Prebble said.
"As for Go Lucky Go, first time to the Valley he handled it well and relaxed over the extra trip...Nice workmanlike win."
The treble sent Prebble further ahead in the jockeys' championship, but reigning champion Douglas Whyte struck back one blow in the second to last event with David Ferrari-trained One Wee Acorn, the second leg of a double for the trainer.
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